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Adventure Game Scene of the Day — Saturday 6 October 2012
I really should get around to actually trying out a Zork game. Which one would be ideal to start with (minus any of text adventures)?
Check this.
I’ll add that Zork Nemesis a dark game with a dark story and a few horror aspects, which takes place in the Zork universe but has hardly any connection to it. I liked the game, but I never felt I was playing a Zork game.
Now playing: ——-
Recently finished: don’t remember
Up next: Eh…
Looking forward to: Ithaka of the Clouds; The Last Crown; all the kickstarter adventure games I supported
Nemesis is really the only one of the three with any hint of seriousness to it. Return to Zork and Grand Inquisitor are very farcical and do well to replicate the humor of the originals, but they feel like tributes to Zork. Which isn’t entirely a bad thing, but I sometimes wish they’d been able to make another one somewhere in between the two extremes of serious and silly. GI feels closer to Starship Titanic in tone than the Zork games.
I’ll just say that I think the text adventures were first and foremost adventures, not comedies. Their universe was a very eccentric fantasy world combined with a humorous narrator. Being the first games of their type they wanted to be entertaining, and achieved that magnificently. They never got too carried away with the laughs at the expense of adventuring.
Shun magic, and shun the appearance of magic! Shun everything - and then shun shunning!
No citizens over, or under, the age of 18 may appear on, or in, the streets after curfew is in progress. Violators of Inquisition curfew may be intimidated, incarcerated, lacerated and/or masticated if time permits and the weather is fine.
Further violators of curfew will be threatened with smitting, then smitten. Once smote, further smitation and subsequent resmitation will commence until the smittee is deemed to be sufficiently smit by the smitter
Are these quotes from the game?
*bumps the (partial) replay of Zork: Nemesis and the first playthrough of Zork: Grand Inquisitor forward in his list of games to play*
Permasuck, from Frobozz Electric. We don’t make things that suck, we make things that suck permanently.
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This game is very quoteworthy.
It’s hilarious.
An adventure game is nothing more than a good story set with engaging puzzles that fit seamlessly in with the story and the characters, and looks and sounds beautiful.
Roberta Williams
It can’t do any harm to repeat that this weekend all Activision games at GOG are 60% off. People who want to play one or more Zork games at some point should get them now. Only $2.39 each. That’s only $9.56 for the lot! The Zork Anthology (5 Zork text adventures, the Enchanter trilogy and Wishbringer not included) - Return to Zork - Zork Nemesis and Zork Grand Inquisitor.
Now playing: ——-
Recently finished: don’t remember
Up next: Eh…
Looking forward to: Ithaka of the Clouds; The Last Crown; all the kickstarter adventure games I supported
*adds Return to Zork to his list of games to play*
Damn you all! 
The truth can’t hurt you, it’s just like the dark: it scares you witless but in time you see things clear and stark. - Elvis Costello
Maybe this time I can be strong, but since I know who I am, I’m probably wrong. Maybe this time I can go far, but thinking about where I’ve been ain’t helping me start. - Michael Kiwanuka
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